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“...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go." From Alice Hoffman's "Local Girls", pg.102.”

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Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman is a renowned American contemporary novelist, born on March 16, 1952. Her works are known for their dreamlike narrative style and rich imagination, which have won her a large following among readers. more

“It’s true that someone will always say that good and evil don’t exist: that is a person who has never had any dealings with real evil. Good is far less convincing than evil, but it’s because their chemical structures are different. Like gold, good is never found in a pure state in nature: it therefore doesn’t seem impressive. It has the unfortunate tendency not to act; it prefers, passively, to be seen.”

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Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

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“A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.”

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Source: In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

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Source: The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings

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Source: The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975

“I might have made a tactical error not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that didn't pay off.”

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“When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.”

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“it goes something like 'There are a lot of ways to be yourself.”

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